Six additional cases ' 5 from Free State and 1 from Northern Cape - of Rift Valley fever (RVF) have been reported by the South African National Institute of Communicable Disease (NICD) Laboratory. The total number of laboratory confirmed human cases of RVF is now 149 since the first incident on 13 February 2010.
Medical male circumcision now forms part of government's policy to reduce new HIV infections. 'By 2011, medical male circumcision must be practiced all over South Africa', Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi announced recently when he detailed new protocols for TB and AIDS treatment which came into effect on April 1.
Read part 3 of a diary that was kept by a TB patient, Lungi Langa as she describes her journey toward recovery from TB.
A large proportion of pregnant women who access antenatal care in South African clinics and hospitals are depressed which could pose a risk to their unborn babies. However, the Perinatal Mental Health Project in Cape Town, which offers counselling to mothers throughout their pregnancy, is playing a role by tackling depression in the initial stages of the pregnancy.
OPINION:'You will never be the same again', is a comment you may hear from a health care provider(HCP) on receiving a diagnosis of cancer. This assuming the HCP is bold enough to state this obvious, yet highly controversial statement. You will, in fact, never be the same again.
The National Institute of Communicable Disease (NICD) Laboratory has confirmed this afternoon that visitors coming to South Africa for the 2010 Fifa World Cup are not at risk of Rift Valley Fever (RVF).
There are growing calls for a forensic audit into Khomanani, Government's flagship HIV prevention campaign which has cost the taxpayer millions of rand but has very little to show for it.
The Department of Health and Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, supported by the South African Field Epidemiology and Training Programme (SA-FELTP) and National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), are working round-the-clock to contain the spread of the Rift Valley Fever (RVF) ahead of the 2010 Fifa World Cup.
HARGEISA: (PlusNews) - A new programme is targeting about 800 primary and junior high school students in northwestern Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland with HIV/AIDS messages for the first time.
HARARE: (PlusNews) - A new report by Zimbabwe's National AIDS Council (NAC), showing a dramatic rise in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among people aged 15 to 24 in the capital, Harare, has health experts worried that the country's success in reducing HIV could be unravelling.
NAIROBI: (PlusNews) - With large donor projects winding up and little bilateral support for HIV programmes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the country is facing the possibility of ARV shortages and rising HIV mortality, say aid workers.
LILONGWE: (PlusNews) - Male circumcision (MC), which can reduce HIV among men by up to 60 percent, is controversial in Malawi and government has yet to implement mass male circumcision. But a chain of private clinics has rolled out the measure with some surprising results.
KIGALI: (PlusNews) - Rwanda's recent national condom awareness campaign failed to include messages designed for people with disabilities, something experts say is a mistake, as they are often equally at risk of HIV as the rest of the population.
Activists have cautioned that the Gates Foundation funded study, released today in The Lancet and showing welcome progress on reducing maternal mortality globally, also reveals one catastrophic exception.
They say a picture tells a thousand words. It's easy to understand why when you see 'Through Positive Eyes', a photographic and poster exhibition by people living with HIV and AIDS telling their life journeys with the infection.
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